Hipster hits

Hipsters are just a more pretentious version of a yuppie who like to look like bums.

As one of the earlier forms of "hipster", I indeed read books, watched art films, wore skinny jeans that I had to take in, loved coffee, wore glasses, read beat writers, etc. This was waaaayyyy back and I had a great little group of friends who would get together and talk about anything from the mundane to important things, often grabbing a play and acting out scenes poorly. During that time, Belle & Sebastian was my favorite band, I drove everybody crazy because my mix tapes had 70% of their songs - I couldn't help myself. Some people may have thought we were pretentious because we liked different things, others might have decided to laugh at us because of our hair, vintage clothes, beards, whatever that was not the fashion at the time. I'm still that same person, older and less interesting (lol) but I am sad that calling someone a hipster is a slight, it's worse now that hipster got much more mainstream along with geek chic and comic books. In any case, I agree, it's silly for people to lump everyone together and then insult them. And if the worst thing you can say about them is that they are pretentious, I guess that's not the worst thing any group has ever been called.

A "hipster" is basically anyone who is "hip"...so essentially, the "fashionably alternative" types. Home ground: inner city university campuses and nearby coffee shops.

Aesthetically, it means different things at different times. It seems that it currently means pseudo-nerdy, vintage clad, inoffensive folk-pop types.

Wait a few years and it'll mean something else.

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